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Funny, but Correspondent William McWhirter was a little nervous about doing a series of extensive interviews with Humorist Erma Bombeck for this week's cover story. After 20 years with TIME, the past three as Caribbean bureau chief covering such subjects as Central American revolutions and the Miami cocaine epidemic, McWhirter at first approached the assignment more as a fringe benefit than a job. Then he began to worry whether he was quite ready for a warm, wisecracking columnist whose chief concerns are the household gods. Says he: "Some journalists are fond of saying that the nice guys...
McWhirter also found himself unprepared for another problem: Erma's cohort of female fans and their formidable powers of intimidation. "All the women in my own family," he says, "told me how lucky I was, how much fun I was sure to have, how much they wished they could come along, and how fortunate I was to be meeting someone who could help me understand them. They were certain that Erma was just like the lady in the column, vacuuming around the house and taping funny lines on the fridge. And if she wasn't, they didn...
...Erma Bombeck 's Letters to Andy Rooney. Hilarious yet wise correspondence between the nation's best-loved humorists, with advice on everything from how to jar pickles to how to eat jam. "Sidesplitting"-Kirkus Reviews...
...easy target for parody. And the subjects he covers on his weekly blurb at the end of the CBS news show "60 Minutes" range from the obvious and dull to the obtuse and dull. People who think Andy Rooney is really funny are the kind of people who read Erma Bombeck, people who subscribe to Good Housekeeping, who still laugh at jokes about the Ayatollah Khomeini and the high price of gasoline...
...Erma Bombeck, humorist, on what women discuss in beauty parlors: "Pretty much the same things men talk about in bars, only they don't care about who won the pennant...